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Saturday, September 15, 2012

Pumpkin Pancakes with Cinnamon Brown Butter

From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...I remember the cooks and food of my childhood with great affection. I was surrounded by women who loved to cook and knew their way around the kitchen. Back in the day, they did more with a wooden spoon than I can do today, despite an arsenal of appliances and a well-equipped kitchen. Fortunately, they also loved to teach and once they realized I came from a home where food was viewed as a necessary evil, they took me under their collective wings and taught me how to cook. I have only a handful of memories from my mother's kitchen. I remember tearing bread for turkey stuffing and baking apples in the fall, but what first comes to mind is making breakfast with my father on Sunday morning. My daddy's specialty was scrambled eggs served in fried bologna cups that were topped with ketchup and hot sauce. I can hear you groaning. I have friends who, to this day, insist that I married young to escape that Sunday ritual. I say nothing! I'm guessing that most men have a dish they call their own and like to cook for special or ceremonial occasions. Bob, my Silver Fox, loves to make holiday breakfasts and his specialty is pancakes. Not just any pancakes, mind you. He likes to experiment and my job is to find new recipes for him to try. The recipe I'm featuring today is his latest experiment. The brown butter is the star here. The pancakes are fine, but they are very bland and if you come to the table expecting fall flavors, you're bound to be disappointed. The taste of pumpkin is barely perceptible and the recipe is saved only because the pancakes are topped with a spiced brown butter. Fortunately, the pancakes are easy to make and they look quite lovely on a plate. If you are looking for a new breakfast dish you might want to give this recipe a try. They pancakes need to cook a bit longer than usual or they'll be gummy and you might want to add some cinnamon and nutmeg to the batter to perk up the flavor. Here's how they are made.

HHHMmmm... I'm always a bit wary when I see the word 'experiment' in a recipe - but these look great! I don't expect a lot from pancakes - they're just there to offset the topping, which in this case looks FAAABULOUS!

Maybe that just means us Aussies don't take our pancakes seriously ...

There is a welcome chill in the air this a.m. and that browned butter draws me in. My husband is the pancake maker in this house also so I am printing this. He loves to play. I have to say that eggs in fried bologna cups don't sound half bad to me! I could do without the ketchup - but I am thinking eggs and mortadella...

Well a bite of this pancakes is definitively 'one perfect bite' :) Nice to meet you, I am happy I found your nice blog. I am following you from now. Visit me if you wish, looking forward to it. Cheers, Letizia

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